Stampede Kills One and Injures 100 at Kenyan College
A tragedy shows the tension and fear in the air after last week.
NBC News reports.
Stampede at Kenya College Kills One, Injures 100 a Week After Garissa Attack
NAIROBI — A Kenyan student died and more than 100 others were injured as they fled after a electricity transformer explosion before dawn on Sunday triggered fears their campus was being attacked, officials said.
Students jumped from windows at their University of Nairobi residence halls in a stampede that underlined growing tensions just over a week after gunmen stormed another university campus.
The dead student was among others who jumped from residence halls as high as five floors up, fearing the University of Nairobi’s Kikuyu campus had come under attack, university vice chancellor Peter Mbithi told Reuters.
“We have lost one male student who fell from fifth floor,” Mbithi said outside the emergency section of the country’s main public hospital, Kenyatta National.
Witnesses said the transformer blew up at about 4.30 am (0130 GMT), setting off screams from the women’s wing of a dormitory. The panic spread to the men’s wing, where students woke up and scrambled to get out.
Stampede at Kenya College Kills One, Injures 100 a Week After Garissa Attack (NBC News)
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Transformers rarely explode, this may have been an act of terrorism. Think about it, there are transformers everywhere yet you have never been around when one exploded or it was just one in 50 years.
Transformers explode all the time. They make a bright flash when they go because of the high voltage. And since they are full of oil, there’s usually a big fire that’s hard to put out. Just search for “transformer explosion” on YouTube and you’ll see what it must have been like for them. Here’s one from a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxXd09Wv94